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the much admired writer and a passionate gardener herself

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My Tender Matador (Grove Press Pbk) Asian & Asian American LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDSCentered around the 1986 attempt on the life of Augusto Pinochet, an event that changed Chile forever, My Tender Matador is one of the most explosive, controversial, and popular novels to have been published in that country in decades. It is spring 1986 in the city of Santiago, and Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of the city's many poor neighborhoods works the Queen of the Corner, a hopeless and lonely romantic who embroiders